07/11/2018

The Anderson community acknowledges your dedication and academic achievements:

GLORIA APPEL PRIZE

The Gloria Appel Prize is given annually to graduating MBA students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in entrepreneurial studies and student leadership. The full-time MBA students who received this award excelled in three or more entrepreneurial electives, while also taking on leadership roles at Anderson.

Candidates with superior academic achievement in strategy and policy are recommended and chosen by UCLA Anderson policy and strategy faculty. Factors entering into the selection decision include the students’ revealed preference for strategy and consulting as well their excellence as a TA and their potential academic research contributions.

James Gische, Christopher O’Connor

FRED WESTON AWARD

The J. Fred Weston awards are given to the graduating MBAs whose achievements in their finance courses best exemplify the highest standards of academic excellence and scholarship. Weston was one of the pioneers of modern finance and was on the UCLA Finance faculty for nearly 60 years. He has influenced generations of academics as well as corporate finance practitioners.

The Briskin Award is given to students who excel in both their core and elective marketing classes. The winner is selected by faculty and based on GPA and number of marketing classes completed.

Christina Brehm, Nicholas Mohadjer

OUTSTANDING STUDENT IN MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS

The Management and Organizations (M&O) Award recognizes superior academic achievement in the area. Candidates are chosen by a consensus of the area faculty based not only on how much the student demonstrates mastery in the M&O area’s course material but also on who contributed the most to enriching the classroom environment through participation. Anderson selected winner in 2018 from the Fully Employed MBA program.

Ashley Fairon

JOHN S. LONG AWARD

This prestigious award is named for John S. Long, founding chairman of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate board and CEO of Highridge Partners Inc. The criteria by which the winner of this award is selected are designed to reflect John Long’s own leadership style. Long is known as someone who relies upon fundamental principles, rigorous analysis and investing discipline, and avoids the public notoriety that seems to follow other large players in the industry.

Laurel Casey

OUTSTANDING STUDENT IN DOTM

The academic award for Decisions, Operations and Technology Management (DOTM) recognizes superior academic achievement in the area. Candidates are recommended by the DOTM faculty and the winner is chosen by a consensus of the area faculty based on students’ academic performance in DOTM courses.

Guangye Ji, Andrew Kirk

IMPACT ALUMNI AWARD

The Impact Alumni Award for Applied Management Research field study launched in 2018. The inaugural award was given to the MBA student team that demonstrated excellence in a social impact AMR project, as determined by a panel of UCLA Anderson alumni judges. This award takes into consideration teams’ recommendations that contribute to a mission-driven organization’s need to balance financial and social impact returns.

Since 1992, this award has been given to the Applied Management Research field study team and project judged to represent the highest standards of leadership, teamwork, research and analysis, professionalism, and strategic creativity in its solution to a complex problem. Five Deloitte Award finalist teams made their final presentations to judges from Deloitte Consulting and the team representing Northrop Grumman prevailed.

The Edward V. Sedgwick III Memorial Award was established in 1985 to recognize MBA students who produce written reports of exceptional quality, clarity and persuasive analysis in the Applied Management Research program. In 2018 several teams produced excellent written reports; the team representing UCLA Health stood above the rest.

The Union Bank Entrepreneurship Award recognizes the MBA student teams that excel in launching their own business through Anderson’s Business Creation Option capstone project. In 2018, finalists representing Prairie Coast were honored with the award.

The GAP field study program formally recognizes select outstanding graduates of the previous year’s GAP program. It offers students an opportunity to share their GAP experiences with the incoming class and mentor students. Many GAP fellows continue to volunteer for several years after graduation.

Edward W. Carter Fellows represent the highest level of academic achievement in the MBA Program. To qualify, students must earn a grade point average in the top 2 percent of the class within five quarters of study. The award is named for a pioneer Bruin whose graduation in 1932 coincided with UCLA’s fifth anniversary on the Westwood campus. Carter is best known as the founder of The Broadway, and later rose to chairman of the parent company Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc. It is in the spirit of academic achievement as the springboard to leadership greatness that Anderson honors the Edward W. Carter Fellows today.

Harold M. Williams Fellows represent the highest level of academic achievement in the Fully Employed MBA program. To qualify, students must earn a grade point average in the top 2 percent of the class over 10 quarters of study. The award is named for a maverick Class of 1946 Bruin who returned to the UCLA as dean of what was then the Graduate School of Management. Under Williams’ tenure, UCLA GSM rose into the ranks of the top 10 business schools in the country, the only public school on the list at the time.